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List of Robert Burns memorials


This is a list of over sixty known memorials (statues, busts, and buildings) to the Scottish poet Robert Burns. Of these, the oldest outdoor statue is given to be at Camperdown, Victoria, Australia (1830).

State Library of South Australia, Adelaide

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory (1935)

Robert Burns Memorial in Centenary Place, Brisbane

Montreal Statue by George Anderson Lawson dedicated to Burns in tribute to its founding Scottish community.

Burns statue in Victoria Park (Halifax), Halifax, Nova Scotia by George Anderson Lawson

Central Park, New York, NY, USA

Garfield Park, Chicago

Schenley Park, Pittsburgh

Other than text of his poems, a plow may be present to represent his earlier vocation as a farmer. Several statues show Burns' dog, Luath.

A number of statues of Burns, and the friezes around the plinths, around the world are reproductions of an original work.

Sculptor George Anderson Lawson's original work of Burns with right arm folded above the left, in Ayr, Scotland, in 1892 can be seen at:

It has also been reported a second small copy was presented to the Sorbonne University, Paris, France, in 1938. It was then hidden during the German military occupation of France, and so avoided being melted down. Its present whereabouts is unknown.


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